RAGE delayed a month, lives up to name

RAGE, which was originally expected to launch September 13th on the PC, 360, and PS3, is now expected to be available on October 4th according to their official website. Neither Bethesda nor iD Software published a press release yet to confirm the release date push yet being on the game’s official website there seems to be little doubt that RAGE will end up being an October release.

WHAT?!?!?!?

(Image from iD Software)

Without a press release there is still only speculation about the cause of the delay. Tom’s Hardware speculates that the planned release of Gears of War 3 a week after the original date for RAGE pushed up the release date into October to avoid Epic Games’ behemoth release. It is also possible that the one month delay was completely development driven. iD was long known for the old-school PC game development “done when it is done” mentality and they have no problems delaying a release to get it to the state that they desire it to be at.